# Where do the old pianos go? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 13, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273 "2017-09-13T20:33:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/41 "2017-09-15T23:14:42Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Nowhere of note. You’re gonna want to scale back that reply. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/42 "2017-09-15T23:39:51Z")
> [@KMS94](#): > > As the owner of a moving company, I can attest to this happening frequently to the varieties of vertical pianos. I’m not looking for a free piano or trying to get rid of one, but I wanted to say thanks for posting a detailed factual answer. Too often the high-quality responses go unnoticed in the usual thicket of puns and WAGs. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/43 "2017-09-15T23:41:16Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > You’re gonna want to scale back that reply. you expecting treble? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/44 "2017-09-16T00:26:12Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I always feel bad when they do organ donation drives because all I have is a used flute. Hahahahaha penis. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/45 "2017-09-16T00:53:41Z")
I have had the poor fortune to have to get rid of four in the last five years. One was sold for a nominal amount, two were donated to churches for basically basement use, one had no takers at all so I cut it down and scrapped the metal and reused the wood for some projects I had in mind. As an aside, I got more for the scrap than I did selling the one. Even worse than pianos are semi-old organs; the basic Hammond household tube types. Even with some of the more ornate semi-professional ones its a losing game. If I ever have to deal with one of those again its going to be Saws-all and Dumpster. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/46 "2017-09-16T00:54:01Z")
Old pianos never die. They just dimuendo away. ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/47 "2017-09-16T04:20:11Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I always feel bad when they do organ donation drives because all I have is a used flute. Lovingly hand-polished to a fine finish? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/48 "2017-09-16T15:58:52Z")
I was at a party this summer where an old, dismantled player piano was burned in a firepit. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/49 "2017-09-16T21:11:31Z")
People Will them to churches. In every basement room, of church I know, there is an out of tune, beat up old piano upon which some kid bangs out a little Ragtime once every three years or so. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/50 "2017-09-16T21:34:15Z")
[Repurposed.](https://www.google.com/search?q=repurposed+pianos&rlz=1C1AOHY_enUS733US737&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBoff_06rWAhXlxlQKHdtJA5kQsAQIJw&biw=1527&bih=845) Some of these are cool - and surprisingly non-kitschy - enough to tempt me. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273/51 "2017-09-18T23:20:47Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > [Repurposed.](https://www.google.com/search?q=repurposed+pianos&rlz=1C1AOHY_enUS733US737&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBoff_06rWAhXlxlQKHdtJA5kQsAQIJw&biw=1527&bih=845) Some of these are cool - and surprisingly non-kitschy - enough to tempt me. Those bars look pretty good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-old-pianos-go/796273.md?page=2)